The World Digital Library

The World Digital Library

Libraries and archives from around the world have come together in a project to share their collections of rare books, maps, films, manuscripts and recordings online for free.
The World Digital Archive will function in seven languages and include content in additional languages.

Here is a small selection of the library's treasures

Wednesday 8 April 2009 10.52 EDT
First published on Wednesday 8 April 2009 10.52 EDT

1562 map of the New World, drawn up by royal cosmographer Diego Gutierrez for the king of Spain to assert royal claims. It is one of two known copies

The Huexotzinco Codex (1531) documenting in pictographic language part of the testimony in a legal case against representatives of the colonial government in Mexico, 10 years after the Spanish conquest in 1521